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Julia lives the socialistic life, thanks to Papa Obama
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mysanantonio.com — In the competition for the creepiest campaign material of 2012, we may already have a winner. It is “The Life of Julia,” the Obama re-election team's cartoon chronicle of a fictional woman who is dependent on government every step of her life.
The phrase “cradle to grave welfare state” originated with Clement Atlee's socialist government in post-World War II Britain. Back then, it was meant as a boastful description of a new age of government activism. Subsequently, it became a term of derision for critics of an overweening government. In the spirit of Atlee, the Obama campaign revives the concept of “cradle to grave” as it highlights Obama-supported programs that take care of Julia from age 3 to her retirement at age 67.
Julia begins her interaction with the welfare state as a little tot through the pre-kindergarten program Head Start. She then proceeds through all of life's important phases, not Shakespeare's progression from “mewling and puking” infant to “second childishness and mere oblivion,” but the Health and Human Services and Education Department version: a Pell grant (age 18), surgery on insurance coverage guaranteed by ObamaCare (22), a job where she can sue her employers for more pay thanks to the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act (23), free contraception (27), a Small Business Administration loan (42) and, finally, Medicare (65) and Social Security (67). In a sci-fi touch, these entitlements are presumed blissfully unchanged sometime off in the 2070s.
No doubt, the creators of Julia — imagine a dour and featureless version of Dora the Explorer who grows old through the years — weren't seeking to make a major philosophical statement. But they inadvertently captured something important about the progressive vision.
Julia's central relationship is to the state. It is her educator, banker, health-care provider, venture capitalist and retirement fund. And she is, fundamentally, a taker. Every benefit she gets is cut-rate or free. She apparently doesn't worry about paying taxes. It doesn't enter her mind that the programs supporting her might add to the debt or might have unintended consequences. She has no moral qualms about forcing others to pay for her contraception, and her sense of patriotic duty is limited to getting as much government help as she can.
The alleged benefits to Julia are exaggerated or nonexistent. Pity the poor thing if she depends on Head Start for her launch into the world. A study by the Department of Health and Human Services last year found that positive educational effects tend to wear off by the first grade. The government assistance she gets for financing college feeds into the maw of inexorable tuition increases. The chances that the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act is going to boost her pay, as a web designer, are essentially nil. Julia is getting punked.
Her life is framed to show she gets more from President Barack Obama than from Republicans. The same contrast could be achieved differently. She could lose her web-design job and go on unemployment, which President Obama always wants to extend despite Republican objections. With her family's income dropping, she could resort to the food-stamp program, which has expanded massively under President Obama despite Republicans inveighing against the trend. These examples don't suit the campaign's purposes, though. They show government to be a poor substitute for the robust recovery that President Obama hasn't delivered even as he has endeavored

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Is Julia the Queen of the leeches?
Very possibly, she sure is a democRAT poster child for what's wrong with the democRAT party..
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She looks like the product of government run schools that have educated her just enough to get work as a government drone.
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Probably the product of either poor parenting or the result of being raised by a single government dependent parent.
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Julia is probably a lesbian as well.
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She is entitled as the democRAT politicians have pandered for years.
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This is the silliest political ad I can remember since Dukakis riding in a tank with a helmet on.
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lastbaldeagle
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Meet Obama’s ideal woman. Her name is Julia.

As told by Obama’s latest ad campaign, Julia’s parents didn’t teach her the alphabet or how to make friends; Head Start did. Her parents didn’t need to save for college, because she got a government grant and student loans (which she’ll spend a good portion of her adult life paying back). Her first job as a graphic designer didn’t have benefits, but that’s okay, because government provided free health care (since she couldn’t stay on her parents’ plan). Julia had free birth control—thanks to government. When she decided to have a baby, she had free prenatal care—thanks to government. Her son got the same great education she had—thanks to government. Julia started a small business—thanks to government. She retired with Medicare and Social Security—thanks to… well, you get the picture.

Julia is successful, we are told. Her success is not because of her loving family, a supportive church, or a strong local ties—but because big government maintains a lavish welfare state.
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If you like the fictional fantasy girl, Julia you may also love this work of fiction.
http://godfatherpolitics.com/5019/democrats-make-sure-we-all-share-our-toys-like-mommy-does/
‘Democrats Make Sure We All Share Our Toys Like Mommy Does’

“As the twig is bent so grows the tree” is an adage with a lot of truth attached to it. The earlier a person begins to study a subject, the easier it is to learn. This is true with everything from learning a language and Morse Code to political philosophy and economic theory.

Our founders understood the principle. That’s why they started colonial colleges like Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. Liberals caught on quickly, and that’s why they took over colleges like Harvard, Yale, and Princeton.

Public (government) schools are bastions of liberal group-think. Education degrees reinforce the idea that the government is the best educator. Step by step liberals took over the public school system in the United States and use it to further their leftist worldview.

Not stopping with government education, liberals have been using children’s books to promote their radical ideas at an even earlier age. Heather Has two Mommies, And tango Makes Three, Momma, Mommy, and Me, Daddy, Papa, and Me, The Tree of Life: The Wonders of Evolution, and so many more. One that I missed is Why Mommy is a Democrat.
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